Legal Opinion
Balintulo Ex Rel. Balintulo v. Ford Motor Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided July 27, 2015No. 14-4104PublishedCited by 78 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge:
This appeal presents the question of whether plaintiffs, victims of South African apartheid, have plausibly alleged relevant conduct committed within the United States that is sufficient to rebut the Alien Tort Statute’s presumption against extraterritoriality.
We hold that they have not.
Accordingly, we AFFIRM the August 28, 2014 order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Shira A. Scheindlin, Judge).
BACKGROUND
Néarly a decade and a half ago, plaintiffs filed suit under the Alien Tort Statute (“ATS”) 1 against various…
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